Having a hard time right now on this lake. I am a little behind times for I just had to retire my paper graph, which I loved, and had to go to the stuff. Not crazy about is as of yet, but I will get use to it and learn how to use it to my best advantage as possible.
Thing seems to lie so much because i guess I haven't gotten it down pat yet.
Just how good is the fish ID on these things? Seems I am going to have to depend on this for a while and when I do get on the fish switch over to where i can get the arches that I have been use to for 30 years.
Went out last Friday and the only thing I hooked was timber. The fight is good but doesn't look good on the table and makes no gravey. :smile2:

1) TURN OFF THE FISH ID
2) Buy the bets you can afford3) TURN OFF THE FISH ID!!!

Never ever, even under gun point, use the fish ID.

Even if Osama Bin Laden is on your boat and offer to surrender if you turn it on!! Be a man and leave on the arches and kick his ass!!! :lol:

Seriously, that stuff is to captivate kids and sell depthfinders to skiers.

It interpolates data down to a fish. It can be a whole school of shad and it will show it as a couple of small fish. It can show a brush pile as a school of bait. Sometimes it is right, sometimes wrong, but the main thing is that it does not give you all the information you need to make a decision on how to fish or not.

The only thing I would do to the factory set-up is run down the sensitivity to around 90% if you dont want to see every bit of crap, other than that leave it alone.

I know what you mean about the depth finder.....I had a Hummingbird 3000 that I used for years and I loved it but it finally went south on me. I replaced it with a Eagle 240 with sonar/GPS and ive had a time with it. But finally I learned to stay away from the fish id and keep the sensitivity around 82% and it works fine. I had to do some experimenting with the fish arches.......but since I have an abundance of grandkids that love the water, this wasnt a problem. I may not be able to pick out a school of stripers or catfish on it.......but I can show you what a large school of various sized grandkids looks like swimming under the boat.